Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide with Casey Luskin
How would you explain intelligent design to someone who has just recently begun looking into it? Perhaps you are new to it yourself. Source
Emily Reeves: How to Study Biology with Systems Engineering Principles
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Traditional methods in biology have proven insufficient for understanding and accurately predicting complex biological systems. Why? Source
Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge
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Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Source
Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes
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Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Source
Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism
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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Source
Livestream with Us Tomorrow! It’s the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith
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The sessions for “All Creatures Great and Small” will be available to watch for a full week after the conference. Source
Francis Collins Employs Climate Change as a Cudgel
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Collins identifies as a Christian, but he seems to have missed a glaring instance of design in the Earth system. Source
Forrest Mims on Winning the Rolex Award (And How You Can Too!)
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By the early 1990s, Mims had built a reputation as one of America’s foremost citizen scientists. Source
RNA as Cells’ “Text Messaging” System
Amy Buck, Annie Melchor, cell's, co-operation, Daniel Dennett, DNA, Hadi Valadi, Intelligent Design, language, Life Sciences, natural selection, panpsychism, ribonucleic acid, RNA, text messaging, thymine, University of Gothenburg, uracil, warfare, William Dembski
Some researchers wonder if RNA can be understood as a common language that can be read among cells of widely different life forms. Source
Pond Scum Is Our Equal: That’s Nature Rights for You
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Now, a “tribunal” will be held in New York to promote the rights of nature and undermine public support for fossil fuels. Source